Christine, as Jonathon intimates, support for e g, CJK languages, is not a
word-processor , but an OS issue. You don't provide details on which
operative system you employ, but I presume it's a  Windows variation. If
you're using XP there is no difficulty ; proceed as follow :

  1. Open your Control Panel.
  2. Click «Date, time, language and national settings» (here I'm
  translating from the Swedish, so the terms used on your machine may differ
  slightly).
  3. Click «Add other languages».
  4. Open the «Language» tab.
  5. Check the box entitled «Install files for East Asian languages» (if
  you need them, also check the box «Install files for languages with
  complicated orthographies and languages written from right to left
  (including Thai)).
  6. Click OK.
  7. Click «Add other languages» and open the language tab again.
  8.  In the window that then opens, click on the «Add» button, proceed
  to and highlight the language - e g, simplified Chinese - you wish to add in
  the box to the left, and click the add button again. You have just added a
  language !
  9. Repeat this procedure as often as you need, once for each language
  you wish to add.
  10. Close the window by clicking OK button at the bottom.

In Vista, however, this procedure can be followed to a successful conclusion
only in the Enterprise and Ultimate versions. I have been unsuccessful in
installing other languages than the default languages (US English and
Swedish) in my own Business version of Vista.

If you are using a Linux version, like Jonathon I recommend installing SCIM,
which is the best input editor I have yet seen. Works extremely well in, e
g, Ubuntu.

If neither of the above work for you, you can use the following web-based
(nothing to download to your computer) input editor for Chinese (pinyin) :
http://drliew.net/webime/py21000.html. The repertoire of glyphs is limited
to 21000, but that goes a long way. Try it and see !...

Henri

2007/7/5, jonathon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

� wrote:

> that I cann't input both Chinese and Japanese. I tried to change the

You may need an IME for the following writing systems:

# CJKV;  (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese)
# INDUS VALLEY WRITING SYSTEMS;
* Tibetan;
* Thai:
# BiDI WRITING SYSTEMS;
* Mongolian;
* Arabic;
* Hebrew;
# BOUSTROPHEDOUN WRITING SYSTEMS;

OOo does not directly support Boustrophedoun Writing systems.

WINDOWS:

For international keyboard support, refer to the following
articles:
* WInXP, Win2003:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/xpintlsupp.mspx;
* Win2K:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/2kintlsupp.mspx;

For IMEs refer to the following article:
http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/handson/user/IME_Paper.mspx

For Windows, my recommendation is to use NJStar Communicator.
This is a commercial product, available from
http://www.mjstar.com
The virtue of this product is that it covers Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean.

The IMEs that Microsoft produces have the following issues:
* One IME per language;
* Require Microsoft Office to be installed;
* Are not reliable for non-Microsoft programs;

LINUX:

For international keyboard support refer tot he following
article:

For IMEs refer to the following article:

For Linux, my suggestion is to use SCIM. http://www.scim-im.org/

MACINTOSH:

For international keyboard support refer tot he following
article:

For IMEs refer to the following article:

Note: The following versions of Windows are known for their
monolingualism. Upgrade to Linux if you need to create
multilingual documents.

* Windows 98;
* Windows 98 SE;
* Windows ME;
* Windows Vista Start;
* Windows Vista Home Basic;
* Windows Vista Home Basic N;
* Windows Vista Home Premium;
* Windows Vista Business;
* Windows Vista Business N;

xan

jonathon

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